"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence."

-- Ayn Rand

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“I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.”
“Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.”
“Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.”
“Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.”

Source : "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.
“Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.”
“Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didnâ€™t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where weâ€™re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.”

Source : "Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense". Interview with Fran Korten, www.yesmagazine.org. February 26, 2010.
“Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.”

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